Is not this as good a time as another for our knowing more ?" "Well!" he said, after consideration.

"You're on your oath, you know, Pip's comrade ?" "Assuredly," replied Herbert.
"As to anything I say, you know," he insisted.

"The oath applies to all." "I understand it to do so." "And look'ee here! Wotever I done is worked out and paid for," he insisted again.
"So be it." He took out his black pipe and was going to fill it with negro-head, when, looking at the tangle of tobacco in his hand, he seemed to think it might perplex the thread of his narrative.

He put it back again, stuck his pipe in a button-hole of his coat, spread a hand on each knee, and after turning an angry eye on the fire for a few silent moments, looked round at us and said what follows..